[applause] by creating a flat personal income tax of 17%. [applause] and cutting the regulations that are strangling american business. [applause] the only stimulus ever proven to work is leaving more money in the hands of those who have earned it. [applause] the constitution must be our guide for conservatives to wind nationally. we must stand for something. we must stand on principle. we must stand for something so powerful and so popular that it brings together people from the left and the right and the middle. we need a republican party that shows up on the south side of chicago and shout to the top of our lungs, we we are the party f jobs and opportunity. the gop is the ticket to the middle class. [applause] the gop of old has grown stale and moss covered. [applause] i don't think we need to name any names, do we? our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom the new gop will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere. [applause] if we are going to have a republican party that can't wind, liber